Photography Colleges

About the Photography Major

In today's image-driven culture, capturing moments from behind a camera can lead you
almost anywhere: lighting, styling, retouching, editing, designing,
experimenting, manipulating, processing, and teaching. The photography major
will prepare you to navigate the range of commercial and fine art photography
and be able to move between digital tools and classic technique. Photography
majors focus on the principles and techniques of communicating information,
ideas, moods, and feelings through the creation of images on photographic film,
plates, and digital images.

As a photography
major, you will begin your studies learning basic design and drawing while
working with a wide range of media and techniques as you explore
two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and time-based projects. You will receive instruction on camera
equipment, operation, maintenance, film and plate developing, light and
composition, films and printing media, color and special effects, photographic
art, photographic history, and the use of computer applications to record or
enhance images.

Some schools give
students the opportunity to focus their studies through concentrations or
specializations within the photography major, such as marketing and advertising
or art and design. This may prepare students to become professional
photographic artists. Students graduate prepared for careers as photographers,
graphic designers, or filmmakers.